Biased/incompetent media coverage

[fidstar]

It's a little bit nit-picking but the game she's referring to was an afternoon match played in bright sunshine and not a night game

It was probably night time in Vic. And you should know by now that's all that matters.

 

[Georgie 404]

It's a little bit nit-picking but the game she's referring to was an afternoon match played in bright sunshine and not a night game

Haha!!
I think it’s called artistic license

 

[squashface]

I still reckon Derm is a good, fun, fair caller but Eddie is absolute gash

 

[Astro7]

I hereby officially and publicly put a curse on Eddy McSlimeball = when he kicks the bucket, he is re-incarnated
as a West Australian living in an outer suburb and supporting the Freo Dockers!
The guy seriously suffers from terminal foot in mouth disease!?
He would get on well with Donald Trump! (deluded, entitled, self opinionated etc)
Derm is a fair-minded buffoon, better informed and more professional than Slimy Mcguire...
Jonathan Brown will always be Jonathan Brown(like Big Bad Barry)..it has a low ceiling and dim lights.

 

[Yamumluvsbigcox]

Having a field day in this thread today but;

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I mean, to be fair Phillips did probably break even, but to cite nic's low disposal and hitout count as justification for this when Phillips got less of both is just idiocy...

Phillips 86% game time , natanui 57% game time

And still didnt break even !

 

[Yamumluvsbigcox]

I still reckon Derm is a good, fun, fair caller but Eddie is absolute gash

Derm is better suited to 'special comments ' due to all the head knocks

 

[former lurker]

Bloody disgraceful that the premier competition in the country has such unprofessional Commentators. The AFL should really be looking into and trying to improve this part of the game. But the VFL don't give a shit. It actually seems that the competition has reverted back to being a more predominately Vic focused competition.

 

[Dark Sharks]

The jigs up boiz. No wonder he kept repeating "The Carlton cheer squad won't be happy with that..."

 

[WCErevival]

West Coast even acknowledged the bias during the game on Twitter.

 

[Coasters7]

Derm talks a fair bit of **** but he’s pretty fair imo. Don’t think he’s really as Vic biased as some others, he just enjoys watching an underdog compete (calls Brisbane games similar), and loves to talk about young guys and coach from the commentary box. Eddie on the other hand flat out barracks for the Victorian side.

 

[avishka5]

says the bloke who picked tambling over buddy ahahaha

 

[Feeling Groovy]

I still reckon Derm is a good, fun, fair caller but Eddie is absolute gash

Dermie is a bit of a twat but I find him fair. Eddie was ridiculous. He shouldn't be commentating.

 

[MIKE85]

Did anyone end up tweeting the carlton bloke who wrote the preview for the AFL site? The one where he tipped Carlton by a point?

 

[RookiePick]

Not sure why we are panning the Carlton ruck. I think he played a very good game.

His first half was particularly strong and he had opportunities to hit the scoreboard

 

[Sammy J]

Cool story “list manager”.

Thank heck you’re not in charge of an actual list anymore.

 

[Altum Volantes]

Worst commentary I have ever heard, and we've had some real trash in my time.

Infuriating.

Nah nah nah....the WORST was Sam Kekovich in our game, also vs Carlton, in 2002.

He knew Cousins....Jakovich....and Mark Merenda.

‘Ben Cousins....to his team mate on the wing...over to Mark Merenda (Daniel Kerr) in space, back to Cousins (Braun) - Jakovich - Kicks long....Merenda! (Wirrapanda)’

And so forth.

We got them by a point, our first win in Vic for a good while. That Young Eagle (Adam Hunter) the hero.

 

[fidstar]

Not sure why we are panning the Carlton ruck. I think he played a very good game.

His first half was particularly strong and he had opportunities to hit the scoreboard

This. And it was easily Nic Nat's worse game of the year.

If at the start of the game someone had told Carlton that Nic Nat would only have that much influence on the game, they (Carlton) would have been very very happy with their ruckman's performance.

 

[Illeagle]

There was a moment yesterday when dermie said something positive about us and Ed says "you've turned". Another passage of play where the ball was locked in and not going anywhere and Ed said "great" 4 times and "magnificent" once referring to Phillips doing nothing much at all.

That passage of play at end of 3rd quarter where Yeo took that cracker of a mark and wheeled around to find Lecca open. It was great play by Yeo and got not recognition at all. He had similar numbers to Cripps for the game yet we listen to 3 hours of them jerking off to how good Cripps is.

I pay good money to watch this on Foxtel and i don't think they have any right to broadcast such bias rubbish.

 

[Gods_Son23]

He tends to go completely overboard with underdogs.

 

[bono333]

https://www.change.org/p/foxtel-foo...m_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=share_petition

 

[BartBart]

Nah nah nah....the WORST was Sam Kekovich in our game, also vs Carlton, in 2002.

He knew Cousins....Jakovich....and Mark Merenda.

‘Ben Cousins....to his team mate on the wing...over to Mark Merenda (Daniel Kerr) in space, back to Cousins (Braun) - Jakovich - Kicks long....Merenda! (Wirrapanda)’

And so forth.

We got them by a point, our first win in Vic for a good while. That Young Eagle (Adam Hunter) the hero.

Not sure if you remember the early years - around 1987-1990 the commentators consistently got players names wrong. They didn't really care.

 

[BartBart]

He tends to go completely overboard with Victorian underdogs or Collingwood.

Slightly corrected.

 

[fidstar]

I don't have a huge issue with 1987-90 commentators getting stuff wrong. They were probably paid in meat pies.

But these guys would be on 6 figures. They should be professional.

 

[Onefortheages]

Really hope the west coast eagles come out and publicly say it to the afl. They owe it to their members and supporters. Its bad enough we have to pay to get foxtell to be able to watch our games and even when we do we get dished up with that shit from eddie.

 

[galen]

Did anyone end up tweeting the carlton bloke who wrote the preview for the AFL site? The one where he tipped Carlton by a point?

Yup, multiple times felt good